Chris Karstens
The Central Iowa Chapter of the National Weather Association will once again be hosting their 14th Annual Severe Storms & Doppler Radar Conference March 25-27, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel in West Des Moines, IA.
http://www.iowa-nwa.com/conference/
The preliminary agenda was posted today (see url above), and I encourage you all to check it out! Our conference has a general focus on operational Meteorology, particularly with tornadoes. Here is a list of invited speakers for this year's conference:
Roger Hill (Silver Lining Tours)
Tornado Tourism
Tim Samaras
TWISTEX tornado encounters from 2009
Yvette Richardson, Penn State University
Current Understanding of tornadic storms and VORTEX2
Davis Nolan, WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN
The Murfreesboro Tennessee EF4 of April 2009
Greg Carbin, Storm Prediction Center
Overview of Severe Storm Research and Forecasting at SPC
1980 Grand Island "Night of the Twisters"
A look back 30 years later
Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel
The Atlanta Floods of 2009
We will also be trying something new and innovative this year. For our traditional radar workshop on Thursday afternoon, we will be attempting to do an "Interactive Warning Workshop". Attendees will be split into small teams, and you will be given the opportunity to go to town creating/issuing your own severe weather warnings. At the end of the session, we'll run the verification statistics (FAR, POD, CSI), and the winning team might receive some kind of prize (not sure if/what yet - more details later). We're hoping this will be a lot of fun!
Thanks - Hope to see you in March!
Chris
http://www.iowa-nwa.com/conference/
The preliminary agenda was posted today (see url above), and I encourage you all to check it out! Our conference has a general focus on operational Meteorology, particularly with tornadoes. Here is a list of invited speakers for this year's conference:
Roger Hill (Silver Lining Tours)
Tornado Tourism
Tim Samaras
TWISTEX tornado encounters from 2009
Yvette Richardson, Penn State University
Current Understanding of tornadic storms and VORTEX2
Davis Nolan, WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN
The Murfreesboro Tennessee EF4 of April 2009
Greg Carbin, Storm Prediction Center
Overview of Severe Storm Research and Forecasting at SPC
1980 Grand Island "Night of the Twisters"
A look back 30 years later
Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel
The Atlanta Floods of 2009
We will also be trying something new and innovative this year. For our traditional radar workshop on Thursday afternoon, we will be attempting to do an "Interactive Warning Workshop". Attendees will be split into small teams, and you will be given the opportunity to go to town creating/issuing your own severe weather warnings. At the end of the session, we'll run the verification statistics (FAR, POD, CSI), and the winning team might receive some kind of prize (not sure if/what yet - more details later). We're hoping this will be a lot of fun!
Thanks - Hope to see you in March!
Chris